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Authors: Annie Barrows
Ivy and Bean and the Ghost That Had to Go
IVY
+
BEAN
BOOK 2
IVY + BEAN BOOK 1
“The deliciousness is in the details here, with both girls drawn distinctly and with flair.”
—
Booklist
, starred review
“. . . illustrations deftly capture the girls’ personalities and the tale’s humor. . . . Barrows’s narrative brims with sprightly dialogue.”
—Publishers Weekly
, starred review
“Readers are bound to embrace this spunky twosome and eagerly anticipate their continuing tales of mischief and mayhem.”
—
Kirkus Reviews
IVY + BEAN
AND THE GHOST THAT HAD TO GO
BOOK 2
written by annie barrows + illustrated by sophie blackall
For Esme, finally —A. B.
For Ms. Wissot, who is the best kind of teacher —S. B.
First paperback edition published in 2007 by Chronicle Books LLC.
Text © 2006 by Annie Barrows.
Illustrations © 2006 by Sophie Blackall.
All rights reserved.
The illustrations in this book were rendered in Chinese ink.
eISBN: 978-0-8118-7652-0
The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:
Barrows, Annie.
Ivy and Bean and the ghost that had to go /
by Annie Barrows ; illustrated by Sophie Blackall.
p. cm.
Summary: Second-graders Ivy and Bean set out to expel the ghost who is living in the girls’ bathroom at their school.
[1. Best friends—Fiction. 2. Friendship—Fiction. 3. Ghosts—Fiction. 4. Bathrooms—Fiction. 5. Schools—Fiction.]
I. Title: Ghost that had to go. II. Blackall, Sophie, ill. III. Title.
PZ7.B27576Jg 2006
[Fic]—dc22
2005031790
Chronicle Books LLC
680 Second Street, San Francisco, California 94107
THE GYMNASTICS CLUB
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten—
wham
! Bean crashed into the grass.
“Ouch,” said Ivy, peeking through a hole in her sandwich. “Doesn’t that hurt?”
“No. I’m just dizzy,” said Bean. She sat up, and the playground began to tilt. Ugh. She lay down again.
Now Emma stood up. She lifted her hands above her head, took a big breath, and began. She did nine good cartwheels before she fell on her head.
“Are you all right?” Ivy asked Emma with her mouth full of peanut butter.
“Sort of,” said Emma.
Now it was Zuzu’s turn. Zuzu was the best cartwheeler in the Gymnastics Club. She was also the best backbender. She could do seven round-offs in a row. Nobody else could do even one.
Zuzu pulled down her ruffled pink shirt and raised her hands. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten,
eleven, twelve
cartwheels, and still Zuzu landed on
her feet. Then she arched over backward. She flung her arms over her head and made a perfect backbend. She looked like a turned-over pink teacup. Then she rose back up—
boing
—like a doll with elastic in its legs.
“Wow,” said Ivy.
Bean jumped up. She just
had
to do twelve cartwheels.
“Stand back!” she yelled.
“Wait,” said Zuzu. “What about Ivy? Aren’t you going to do a cartwheel, Ivy?” “I’m guarding the jackets,” said Ivy.
“But Ivy, this is the Gymnastics Club,” said Zuzu. “You can’t just guard jackets.”
Why not? Ivy wondered.
“We’ll teach you how to do it if you don’t know,” said Emma.
“She knows,” said Bean. “She can do a cartwheel. I’ve seen her.”
Ivy looked at Bean in surprise. Why was she saying that? Ivy had never done a cartwheel in her life. Slowly, Ivy put her sandwich down next to Emma’s jacket. “There’s just
one little problem—” she began.
“Hey, Leo!” yelled Bean suddenly. “You’d better watch out! If I get hit with that ball, there’s going to be trouble!”
Leo was the leader of the soccer kids at Emerson School. Before there was a Gymnastics Club, the soccer kids had the whole field to themselves during lunch recess. When Bean and Emma and Zuzu and Ivy started the Gymnastics Club, they kept getting hit with soccer balls. One day, Bean got clobbered in the stomach, and she declared war on the soccer kids. She came to school with a bag of ripe plums and chased Leo down. When she caught him, she sat on him and rubbed plums into his hair. Rose the Yard Duty had been really mad. She told Leo and Bean that they had to work it out, or she would kick them all off the field.
So Bean and Leo worked it out. The Gymnastics Club was supposed to have all the grass near the play structure. The soccer kids were supposed to keep their balls from hitting the Gymnastics Club. Bean promised not to bring plums to school anymore. After that, the war was mostly over.